Denice
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I used to have a stack of pots that I really didn't like and I would let visitors to my studio take one home. I would watch them ooh and ahh over them and it slowly started to sink in that people can have very different taste in art. Some people would look for the piece that had the most imperfections, now I know not to throw those away. Denice
- Joseph Fireborn, Rae Reich, Pres and 1 other
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My first throwing class we were only allowed to keep three pieces for grading purposes. It was that way until I was in advance throwing, mostly the class threw and cut. We also had to mix clay, help load kilns and clean. All of the pottery classes were full and the department was overwhelmed with clay needing to be made and glazed pots sitting everywhere waiting to be fired. Denice
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Sharp sand sounds like a great idea, is it a special sand?
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I get some heat from the house it is enough to keep things from freezing. I have one of those radiator looking electric heaters, first thing I do is turn it on in the morning. I also turn on a couple of small fans to move the air around. I am unable to warm it enough to work out there when it is 0 and below outside. I catch up with chores in the house on those days, fortunately the southern part of Kansas only has 2 or 3 weeks of intense cold each year. I know that doesn't sound that cold to some but we get strong winds with it. Even people from colder states complain about the cold weather here. Denice
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I don't get very attached to my work, I am a process oriented person. I like the process of making it but once it is finished I can let go of it. I think I am this way because of my childhood. I had four sisters and we lived in a 600 sq. ft. house. We each had a drawer for our clothes and toys, we would have to clean it out every month and give the toys we hadn't played with recently to the salvation army. Denice
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The utility cabinet I use is vented, I purchase 2 of them 13 years ago for 80 dollars. I bought two because I wanted to make sure I had enough drying space. I have never used the second one, my husband uses it in the garage. I was recently in a lumber yard and noticed they had the same cabinets for 40 dollars. they haven't change prices in 13 years. Denice.
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You could try it but be prepared for warping or cracking, the lowest temperature on my oven is 180 that is awfully hot for clay. I took a summer throwing class we would take our pots out and set them in the shade out of the wind. It was 105 out that temperature was pushing the edge of the thrown pots tolerance. Denice
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The utility cabinet I bought doesn't cost much here but you may not find one where you live. The college I went to made up a wooden shelf unit with slat shelves, they would wrap it in heavy painters plastic put a fan and light bulb in in. I wouldn't leave the light bulb on unattended, I just had a lampshade frame break and it fell against small low wattage bulb and melted. Denice
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It can be humid in my area so I put a small desk fan or a light bulb in the bottom of my cabinet, the fan cannot blow directly on the pots. The cabinet I use is a utility or laundry room cabinet, it is all plastic with adjustable shelves and is vented. I have to put wire racks on the shelves so I won't have a build up of condensation between the shelf and the bottom of the pot. I pick up the racks at estate sales, you have to know the size and make sure the wires and to far apart. I bought one for tile that is called a pie rack , 3 shelves that stack on top of each other and then fold up to put away. Denice
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We were told not to breathe the dust buy not why. This is a good topic for people with flourescent bulbs in their studio's, I am about to replace my bulbs with LED's and my husband is also replacing the ones in his garage. Now we know to take them to hazardous waste instead of our trash can. Thank you Min for your information and help, not questioning some ones sanity. I am glad I mentioned that class I have learned something new that helps prevent soil contamination. Denice
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This was part of a demonstration on how broken bulbs fired in the clay create a clear glaze. He had us find old bulbs and break them over a trash can outdoors because the powder in side of them was dangerous to breathe. We washed them and brought them to class, this was part of our assignment. I handbuilt my pot, we had only one wheel in the class, my teacher would pick one boy to teach him how to throw. Girls weren't given this honor we were too weak, I was a head taller than my teacher. had broad shoulders and large hands. The glaze it made was a ugly dingy clear. In the late 60's many of the psychodelic albums were played during class and I am pretty sure my teacher was smoking marijuana in his pipe. After I left he somehow managed to burn down the classroom, they rewarded him by replacing the electric kilns with a big gas kiln. It was a interesting and fun time of my life and I didn't do drugs, smoke or drink. Denice
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The sawdust will burn out, it depends on how coarse it is on the texture the clay is after firing. It depends on how sensitive your skin is when it comes to throwing it, I threw a large bowl with large grain sawdust in it, wasn't to bad. I had a teacher that demonstrated throwing clay with broken flourescent bulbs in it. He got the vase thrown and had tiny cuts all over his hand that were bleeding. He wiped off the blood and said no big deal. Denice
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Saw dust gives clay a rough surface after it's fired, you can press chips of wood into it when you are finished throwing it for bigger gouges. I have a pot made by a man and wife team, they gave everyone a unsigned unglazed small bowl from the seminar. The top of the bowl has a beautiful tear. they were using a Cone 10 stoneware. I think you can mix sawdust in any clay you have. It has been 20 years ago so my memory may be a little off. Denice
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I also have it my glaze book but I don't remember the 20 minute hold. What temperature do you hold it at? I bought myself a XL Caldera test kiln recently, I have already ran 20 test firings. Using it has inspired me to buy a new kiln. I bought a kiln several years ago for $300, it had only been fired once, there is a lot of things I don't like about it. I think I will start shopping after I get my new mural fired. Denice
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Looking through your old pots can help sometimes. Like Old Lady I dislike or even hate them but occasionally I will run across a piece that I really liked and forgotten about. I wonder why I didn't go further with that design and decide now is the time. Denice
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I like to read the Ceramic Monthly from the 50's and 60's and check out the techniques that was used before I started seriously working with clay in the late 60's. Once in a while I will try to make a piece that I have seen. I know I will never come close to copying it, by the time I keep cutting and changing it there isn't any resemblance. Denice
- Bam2015, Kelly in AK, Pres and 1 other
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When I was a decorator I would have to turn down jobs because of the chemicals they used in nearby rooms. I never know when I am going to have a reaction and quit breathing. It would be nice to sneeze or cough. letting me know that there is something in the air. I usually can get outside before I collapse, one time I was in a hardware store and they started demonstrating a new product. My husband notice that I was acting odd and decided I needed fresh air, by the time we got to the door I slumped down to the floor. He managed to get me outside. Have been hospitalized for insect spray and another for mowing the grass. I have been around clay mold for 50 years and built up a tolerance to it. Yeah! Denice
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I agree with Kelly, potters are people who are seduced by clay. I filled in one summer for a injured throwing teacher, at the end of the summer everyone had the basics down and fairly happy with their results. A third of the students thought it was too much work and frustrating to continue with. The rest of the class liked the throwing but weren't interested in glaze and clay formulations. I did have three students that followed me around asking questions, I think they may have been seduced by their clay. It makes me wonder why they were seduced and the rest of the class wasn't. Denice
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I am much organized than my husband he works out of piles. I work on projects, I just finished some tiles for a kitchen and I have a long term mural that I am about ready to bisque. I will clean and organize my studio before I start working on the mural. I generally don't stop on a project and start on another but the kitchen tile needed to be done NOW! I will admit that my studio can get messy when I am heading towards the finish line but everything gets cleaned when I finish. Denice
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2 hours ago, Pres said:
Unfortunately, I did the same test, and found that 3 of the factors were upper left hand quad. .. .don't even remember what it meant, but the tester said it was significant to my choice of career. . . a career I never really chose, just fell into.
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Pres
I took a test in high school to help determine my direction in life. The test came back that I should be a architect. They told me I had the highest score on the section of three dimensional objects and blueprints they had ever come across. I didn't get into architecture until I was 55 decided to design my home. Taught myself how to use a computer by learning three architectural programs. Denice
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I took the career test LeeU mentioned, I had potter show up as a suggested career among all of the other artistic careers. They listed a few that had very little to do with art and many of the jobs I have done in my life time. I became a potter when I was 12 years old and my art teacher gave me a ball of clay and told the class to make anything you want. All of the other kids started pounding our ash trays, so I checked with her that I really could make anything. She said yes. I had been reading a book about Egyptian cats and I made a cat pendant. When it was fired she hung it in the schools big display case for the rest of the year. I had decided that clay was magic and you could make anything with it. I have studied other arts and always come back to clay. It could be we all have it in our DNA and it gets switched on by some event, aren't we the lucky ones. Denice
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Wow that cargo van can really hold a lot! I had PT cruisers for 20 years, I traded my last one in 2022, If you took the back seats out it had a flat floor and you could fit 8ft boards by sliding into the front. I packed it to the ceiling many times and even moved my large kiln in it and friends houses. You could register it as a truck if you wanted to pay more taxes. I will have a 65 El Camino to use when my husband gets it painted, it is easy to load much lower than new trucks and has a metal bed cover. It won't have a heated steering wheel but it will have a custom leather interior and air conditioning. Denice